Nice little week started off with a cheapo laminate in bedroom Then the main job was 55 sq of Karndean Island Limestone which customer had got off internet cheap (cheap for a reason there was no boxes, half tiles bashed and seperate strips) made no difference got charged day rate over and above to sort out 1 pile = good 1 pile = crap
Has to shift the whole floor 2.5cm so as to get a good hit on each of the walls and to align with kitchen units (pain in the arse but laser helps alot) House is a new build and is the first one in the estate, the contractors have dug out from a field with low lying ground and there is water ****ing in all round the back garden. Site agent comes round to look (snobby git) giving it all Billy Big Balls "There's no problem here, it's just a puddle and we can put up a wall to hide it" Everyone around him agreeing, and as usual Brian can't keep his mouth shut "Mate, you have a major water problem here with the table and natural drainage that garden will be a bog." Site agent "WHO THE FU&K ARE YOU TO TELL ME!! NOTHING WRONG HERE AND WILL BE COMPLETED ON TIME!!!" Cue Site Agent walking over new turf and in an instant was up to his waist through the new turf screaming like a girl!!! I honestly thought I was going to pis* myself laughing that much!!
As I don't do LVT'S, I look at your photo's with nothing but admiration, especially as you've said half the product was crap. I guess that's the difference between someone like me, who just does carpets and vinyls, and a proper floorlayer, who could justifyably call himself a craftsman.
Good pics mate. Nice one One of my customers got the same gear off eBay. Still went down ok though in the end
They got the stuff for a third of the price and was covered in crap so got them to clean them all. Saved them a packet and got £50 tip and bottle of single malt so a good week
looks really good mate. Proper prep and set out. FloorSkills is bringing back the "fitter of the year comp", remind me to ban you from entering! ( i dont like losing LOL)
I like people like yourself that can appreciate others skills, i have massive respect for people like yourself. Im sure 'scotflooring' (plus others including myself) a few years ago was thinking the same as you, no reason why you cant get yourself to Brians level and start installing floors like this. Its not hard once you know how, its getting the correct tutor / training that counts.
ohhh sooo smooth matt.... I'll see if I can drag him up with me at some point.. He'll only get lost otherwise.. lol
I work totally by myself, supply and fit. If there was any call for LVT'S, i'd do a course, but in the three years I've been on my own, nobody has ever asked. In the seventeen-odd years before that, when I was fitting for shops, I'd never even heard of LVT's, apart from the self-adhesive "peel and stick" crap. I'm in Norfolk, you know.
